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DOSE-CHALLENGED(1) DOSE Tools DOSE-CHALLENGED(1)

NAME

challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

challenged performs a speculative analysis of the repository to identify those packages that, if upgraded to a specific version, would break a large number of other packages in the repository. This tool would be particularly useful during the upgrade of a specific component to evaluate its impact on the software archive.

Input Specification

The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files

Output Specification

The output of challenged is in the yaml format.

Options

Print the list of broken packages
Check package downgrades
Print the list of packages in a cluster
Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked. Takes a comma-separated list of package names and a version .

Example: --checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)"

Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
Enable progress bars.
Display this list of options.

EXAMPLE

  challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml

NOTE

AUTHOR

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo

SEE ALSO

distcheck(1) outdated(1)

<http://www.mancoosi.org> is the home page of the Mancoosi project.

2023-01-24